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UNLABELLED: <p>Introduction: Depression is a common mental disorder with often persistent consequences. Even after adequate treatment, recovery may be far from optimal. To enhance outcomes, we aimed to identify and synthesize factors that depressed adults themselves perceived as facilitating or hindering recovery. MET…

BACKGROUND: Patients with hematological malignancies (HMs) are reported to receive more aggressive care at the end of life (EOL) than patients with solid tumors. However, the reasons behind this occurrence are not fully understood. OBJECTIVES: To examine whether the care at EOL for HMs is mainly because of the disease…

This study aimed to review our 25-year experience with pediatric laparoscopic splenectomy (LS) and describe tips, tricks, and technical considerations.The records of 121 children, undergoing minimally invasive splenectomy in the last 25 years (1996-2021), were retrospectively reviewed. Median patient age was 10.2 years…

BACKGROUND: Despite concussion now being recognized as a public health priority in Canada, recent studies-including our 2012 survey of Canadian medical schools-have revealed major gaps in concussion education at the undergraduate medical school level. METHODS: We re-surveyed all 17 Canadian medical schools using a que…

AIM OF THE STUDY: To report the current activity of intestinal transplantation in Europe (EU) and Unites States of America (USA), underlining outcomes in the last 5&#xa0;years and discussing possible trends. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Data review of results was performed through analysis of ITR and UNOS registries, Eurotra…

Endometrial carcinoma (EC) is nowadays the most frequent gynecologic malignancy. Incidence is increasing, but studies characterizing the changes in demographics, diagnosis, and treatment over the years are scarce. We performed a retrospective observational study of a consecutive series of EC patients (n=188) diagnosed…

PURPOSE: The deformation of the skull base in patients with unilateral frontal plagiocephaly (UFP) is well known, but the mechanism is not still clear. We analyzed the skull base in the patients with UFP who underwent fronto-orbital advancement (FOA) in the early life during the last decade. METHODS: We assessed the t…

Acute mesenteric ischemia (AMI) is a life threatening cause of acute abdomen. The purpose of this study is to define risk factors that predict the adverse outcome of AMI and to present our experience in the last 30 years. Hospital records and clinical data of 107 patients undergoing surgical intervention for AMI during…

OBJECTIVE: To study the characteristic and surgical treatment of traumatic lumbo-sacro-pelvic injuries. METHODS: A retrospective study was carried out on 8 cases with traumatic lumbo-sacro-pelvic injuries between August 2005 and February 2008, which included 6 male and 2 female, aged from 21 to 52 years with a mean ag…

BACKGROUND: Over the last two decades the rate of detection of asymptomatic adrenal masses has increased as a result of the widespread use of abdominal imaging modalities. Incidental pheochromocytoma discovered during the management of an unrelated illness is a rare presentation of these tumors. They can occur in patie…

In recent years, third generation instrumentation systems which achieve correction by maneuvers like derotation and translation, have been widely used in the treatment of idiopathic scoliosis. To increase correction, additional procedures that increase stability, such as screw application for every segment, have been u…

BACKGROUND: Previous studies have indicated that the incidence and mortality rates for multiple myeloma have increased in the United States. The authors reported on the incidence of multiple myeloma in Olmsted County, Minnesota, between 1991 and 2001 and on trends in multiple myeloma incidence over the last 56 years.…

This retrospective study takes into consideration demographic and epidemiological data relative to the population of Arcinazzo Romano, a little village on the mountains situated at 831 m. above sea level in the province of Rome. The socio-economic structure of the village is mainly agropastoral, though, in the last dec…

BACKGROUND: Evidence suggests that community-based interventions that promote improved home-based practices and care-seeking behaviour can have a large impact on maternal and child mortality in regions where rates are high. We aimed to assess whether an intervention package based on the WHO Integrated Management of Chi…

AIMS AND BACKGROUND: The aim of the study was to evaluate the attitude at our institution in using chemotherapy at the end of life in oncology patients. We compared our habits with other clinical patterns in medical oncology, calculating the temporal interval between the last chemotherapy administration and death of th…

In the last three decades, microfluidics and its applications have been on an exponential rise, including approaches to isolate rare cells and diagnose diseases on the single-cell level. The techniques mentioned herein have already had significant impacts in our lives, from in-the-field diagnosis of disease and parasit…

Over the last decade, the role of nuclear medicine studies in the diagnosis of acute osteomyelitis has been discussed in depth in the literature. Yet, the respective roles played in this setting by each of the commonly used radionuclide studies often are confusing. In an attempt to develop a cogent diagnostic strategy,…

The knowledge of the fauna associated with carrions and cadavers for a specific region plays a fundamental role in the estimation of the time since death in forensic cases. In the last years global warming and globalization have affected the insect species distribution. This phenomenon is affecting also the species of…

In comparison with other specific processes of the pelvic girdle tuberculous foci in the sacro-iliac joints are observed relatively frequently. In the last 26 years (1955 to 1980) 43 patients (28 female, 15 male; 39 Germans, 4 immigrant workers) with 45 sacroiliac tuberculosis were treated in the authors' clinic (44 by…

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to explore weight gain in people with HIV (PWH) at least 65 years of age who switch to a DTG based regimen (DTG-s) vs. remaining INSTI-naive (INSTI-n) on stable ART. METHODS: This was a longitudinal prospective study of PWH from the GEPPO cohort. At the beginning of the observation…